B. in 1997

Lives and work in Copenhagen, Denmark

Long-haired mythical creatures reach out to us with their long fingers and nails, intertwining into underwater universes with disjointed faces, seashells, flower spirits, snail-like sea creatures and other hybrid bodies.

Danish artist Cecilia Fiona works across sculpture, painting, costume, and performance to create an interconnected ecosystem where each medium evolves from the other. Her ritual-like performances give physical form to the creatures in her paintings, while her sculptures expand the worlds depicted in her visual works.
Drawing inspiration from quantum physics, microbiology, and alchemy she creates her own mythological universe populated by biomorphic and hybrid beings situated somewhere between prehistorical creatures and future human species.
Her practice envisions speculative futures where the boundaries between human, nature, and cosmos dissolve into fluid, interconnected realities.

Fiona is interested in transitions and interconnectedness and the transformation between life and death, nature and humanity, dreams and reality. She sees her works as ecosystems of beings in constant transformation toward new stages of life and existence, transcending boundaries where new perspectives and positions emerge.

Using organic materials such as paper pulp, shells, branches, rabbit-skin glue, jute, loofah plant and natural pigments, Fiona explores the symbiotic relationship between the body and the earth.
Fiona has created a unique technique for her painting using rabbit-skin glue, which is usually used as a canvas primer. Instead, Fiona mixes it with pigments to use it as paint, providing her work with a semi-translucent, dusty finish, accentuating its ethereal qualities. The process is temperamental and leaves traces of previous attempts, “like forgotten tales which emerge as ghosts from the past.”
Each work is painted with a small, thin brush – even the large strokes and paintings. This meticulousness means that her work is full of details and complex compositions, blending figures and landscapes into one another creating a state of flow and tumult on the canvas dissolving the boundaries between the bodies and the world.

Cecilia Fiona (b.1997) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has a Bachelor’s degree in art history from University of Copenhagen, 2018-2021.

Fiona was shortlisted for The Hopper Prize 2023. She has had two solo shows at Andersen’s Contemporary, Infinite Pollination in 2024 and Follow the Flowers in 2022. She has also had solo shows Weaving Time, Spinning Spine at VITRINE Gallery, London, UK, in 2024 and Giving Breath to Birds at the Independent Art Fair, New York, US, in 2023. Fiona has three works represented in the collection of SIXI Museum, Nanjing, China.

From April 2025 Fiona is presenting a cross-disciplinary performance project Ghost Flower Ritual at Copenhagen Contemporary in collaboration with composer Sophie Søs Meyer and the Athelas Sinfonietta classical music ensemble. The project unfolds as an immersive sensory installation that combines painting, sculpture, costumes, music, and dance, brought to life through a series of live concert performances. Ghost Flower Ritual is inspired by an alchemical myth about a scientist who burns a flower, only to witness it sprouting anew from its ashes.